Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 12:52:06 -0400, Anne Wilson an...@kde.org wrote: Rebooting, nothing has changed. I get grub, lots of disk activity led flickering, but no output to the screen, with or without Esc. I can boot into Safe moade, which lands me in Rescue Mode - but I haven't a clue what to do

Re: [Mageia-dev] M3 beta - where to report problems?

2013-04-08 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 17:43:38 -0400, Thomas Backlund t...@mageia.org wrote: Colin Guthrie skrev 9.4.2013 00:31: 'Twas brillig, and Thomas Backlund at 08/04/13 13:20 did gyre and gimble: It's actually easier than that. Add systemd.unit=multi-user.target on kernel / grub command line and ith

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-sysadm] setup package not installed until quite late on...

2013-04-01 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:56:40 -0400, Thierry Vignaud thierry.vign...@gmail.com wrote: setup's scriptlets were archeological remanants of mdv2007. I've killed them for now. If needed, they can be restored either by spliting setup-basesystem (https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9326#c19) or

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron nonfree/release chromium-browser-stable-25.0.1364.173-4.mga3.nonfree

2013-03-25 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:09:49 -0400, Thierry Vignaud thierry.vign...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 March 2013 21:48, dmorgan buildsystem-dae...@mageia.org wrote: dmorgan dmorgan 25.0.1364.173-4.mga3: + Revision: 405124 + rebuild (emptylog) what for? There should never be an empty changelog... As

[Mageia-dev] List of packages that use dbus-send in scriptlets.

2013-03-25 Thread David W. Hodgins
Is there any way to get a list of all packages that use dbus-send, in the installation scriptlets? As per https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9534, which is for the rtkit package, it uses dbus-send in it's postinstall scriptlet, which doesn't work during upgrade, blocking urpmi until the

[Mageia-dev] List of packages that use dconf in scriptlets.

2013-03-25 Thread David W. Hodgins
Like rtkit, updating gdm during an upgrade is also blocking urpmi in a postinstall scriptlet. This time it's a dconf command. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9535 A list of packages using dbus-send or dconf in the scriptlets would be help helpful. Regards, Dave Hodgins

[Mageia-dev] Help needed with ldap server.and gdm.

2013-03-23 Thread David W. Hodgins
I've been working on getting an ldap server working in Mageia 2, and have a strange error, that I'm not sure how to debug. I have two users. The user dave existed before adding the ldap server, and is defined in both /etc/passwd (group and shadow too), as well as in the ldap database. The user

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fw: Wifi

2013-03-23 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 23 Mar 2013 12:52:15 -0400, Sander Lepik sander.le...@eesti.ee wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 23.03.2013 04:09, Trish Fraser kirjutas: Hi all, This seems to be an ongoing issue - can someone please help me with an answer for this user? And the magical bug

Re: [Mageia-dev] Fw: Wifi

2013-03-22 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:09:56 -0400, Trish Fraser tr...@thefrasers.org wrote: Hi all, This seems to be an ongoing issue - can someone please help me with an answer for this user? I've already responded to the op, basically stating that more info is needed, and suggesting Jason consider

Re: [Mageia-dev] System doen't boot with LVM

2013-02-18 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 06:19:00 -0500, Olivier Thauvin nanar...@nanardon.zarb.org wrote: It is impossible to use an already existing encrypted partition: it said 'cryptsetup failed' and nothing more. For this part, see https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8769 - diskdrake no longer provides

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] rsyslog vs journalctl

2013-02-12 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 20:16:38 -0500, Johnny A. Solbu coo...@solbu.net wrote: On Monday 11. February 2013 23.42, David W. Hodgins wrote: make sure there is a line with 127.0.0.1 beria.inria.fr beria in /etc/hosts, then run dracut -f. Why run dracut? My mistake. I was thinking journalctl

Re: [Mageia-dev] [RFC] rsyslog vs journalctl

2013-02-11 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 13:59:46 -0500, Guillaume Rousse guillomovi...@gmail.com wrote: Whereas my host name, set from HOSTNAME variable in /etc/sysconfig/network, is beria.inria.fr. I have to restart my syslog daemon to get it correct. So I guess just ensuring the hostname is either set prior the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Freeze push: opera 12.14

2013-02-06 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 18:30:41 -0500, FundaWang fundaw...@fundawang.name wrote: Hello, Could opera 12.14 be pushed into cauldron? It addresses a re-occuring crash, If the version in Mageia 2 Nonfree Updates Testing is ready for qa testing, a bug report assigned to qa is needed. Regards, Dave

[Mageia-dev] Getting abrt/libreport working.

2013-02-06 Thread David W. Hodgins
Regarding https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8937 is anyone able to get abrt working on Mageia 2? If so, any idea what else needs to be installed or configured? Regards, Dave Hodgins

Re: [Mageia-dev] Please remove qemu, and qemu-img from Mageia 3.

2013-02-04 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sun, 03 Feb 2013 04:16:54 -0500, Pascal Terjan pter...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 9:45 AM, David W. Hodgins davidwhodg...@gmail.com wrote: During testing of updates to qemu, and x11-driver-video-qxl, it has become very clear that no-one could possibly be using these packages

[Mageia-dev] Please remove qemu, and qemu-img from Mageia 3.

2013-02-03 Thread David W. Hodgins
During testing of updates to qemu, and x11-driver-video-qxl, it has become very clear that no-one could possibly be using these packages, as they are so slow, as to be useless. Over 6 hours to do a net install of a kde x86-64 system, on hardware where that would normally be under 20 minutes.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Questions on dualbooting/grub/bootloader-utils

2013-01-18 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 07:06:00 -0500, JA Magallón jamagal...@ono.com wrote: Why do bootloader-utils (I think?) change device.map, menu.lst settings ? Why forces the boot disk to be always hd0 ? The bootloader-utils assume the sdb will be hd0 at boot time, which is the case on my system. Is

Re: [Mageia-dev] Questions on dualbooting/grub/bootloader-utils

2013-01-18 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 18 Jan 2013 17:36:07 -0500, Barry Jackson zen25...@zen.co.uk wrote: On 18/01/13 21:34, David W. Hodgins wrote: When I select the second drive, as far as grub is concerned, it is hd0, while as far as the kernel is concerned, it's sdb. Regards, Dave Hodgins Try swapping your SATA

Re: [Mageia-dev] [338616] Use official tarball

2013-01-04 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 04 Jan 2013 07:18:05 -0500, Thomas Backlund t...@mageia.org wrote: root-odjjhxpcy38dnm+yrof...@public.gmane.org skrev 4.1.2013 12:29: -# Original source http://www.bouncycastle.org/download/bcprov-%{archivever}.tar.gz -# is modified to -# bcprov-%{archivever}-FEDORA.tar.gz with

Re: [Mageia-dev] fstab issue - can mount but not umount as user, ehh, what?

2012-12-28 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:13:10 -0500, Johnny A. Solbu coo...@solbu.net wrote: When I plug in the usbkey, I can mount it as a reguklar user, but I cannot unmount it. The error message says that only root can do that. The fstab entry is this: == UUID=0893-1889 /media/usbbrikke vfat

Re: [Mageia-dev] Installing Beta 1

2012-12-23 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sun, 23 Dec 2012 18:04:38 -0500, Thomas Spuhler tho...@btspuhler.com wrote: I installed (and tried to) Beta 1 on a vbox I created a brand new HDD and installed Beta2 from the DVD (64bit) Everything went smooth I did not install the optional upgrades I rebooted the system and did not get the

Re: [Mageia-dev] DBus and automount problem with KDE

2012-12-22 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 00:53:02 -0500, Curtis Hildebrand i...@curtishildebrand.com wrote: I need some help debuging a problem with automount and DBus in KDE. For example, a USB key is recognized in the log files, but won't mount or show in Dolphin. All was fine till a few days ago. Gnome works

Re: [Mageia-dev] Utter frustration

2012-11-30 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:35:01 -0500, Frank Griffin f...@roadrunner.com wrote: I don't think anything's going to get done in that timeframe, but CTRL-ALT-{R,S,E,I,U,B} will get you through the weekend. Shouldn't that be ctrl+alt+sysrq-r,s,e,i,s,u,b? Regards, Dave Hodgins

Re: [Mageia-dev] forkbomb protection

2012-11-28 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012 13:00:05 -0500, Johnny A. Solbu coo...@solbu.net wrote: On Wednesday 28. November 2012 17.53, David Walser wrote: Their pam package has a /etc/security/limits.d/90-nproc.conf file that has: *softnproc1024 As the last comment on the bug says, it's a bit

Re: [Mageia-dev] ANN: shadow-utils util-linux with new default paths in testing

2012-11-21 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:35:37 -0500, JA Magallón jamagal...@ono.com wrote: Mmmm, this is a discussion I always had with my sysadmin at work... Do you really want that a binary in local can oerride one in system ? Yes. The purpose in my understanding, is that /usr/local binaries are intended

Re: [Mageia-dev] USB speaker systems

2012-11-21 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 19:39:15 -0500, Richard Couture r...@linuxcabal.org wrote: I was looking at the Bose Companion 5 speaker system and noticed that it intefaces with the computer via USB. Am I going to run into problems with Mageia if I buy it? According to

Re: [Mageia-dev] Anyone know where /usr/bin/shutdown comes from?

2012-09-07 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 11:51:05 -0400, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Not owned by any package so presumably it's from a %post or similar. Anyone know which package or a way to easily search for it? See grep -i shutdown /usr/share/msec/plugins/* Regards, Dave Hodgins

[Mageia-dev] Package without signature - libqthelp4

2012-07-27 Thread David W. Hodgins
The following package has bad signature: /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/libqthelp4-4.8.2-3.mga3.i586.rpm: Missing signature (OK ((none))) I thought this wasn't supposed to be able to happen. Regards, Dave Hodgins

Re: [Mageia-dev] libpostfix issue.

2012-07-16 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:18:45 -0400, Luis Daniel Lucio Quiroz dlu...@okay.com.mx wrote: Le lundi 16 juillet 2012 09:32:13 Colin Guthrie a écrit : ldconfig: /usr/lib64/libpostfix-xsasl.so.1 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start. how tofix this? Looks to me like it's

Re: [Mageia-dev] krb5 paths issue

2012-07-05 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 18:27:38 -0400, David Walser luigiwal...@yahoo.com wrote: An issue has been raised while QA testing an update for krb5 for Mageia 1 and Mageia 2 about apparently incorrect paths in init scripts: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6469 Would the correct thing to do be

Re: [Mageia-dev] bug 2317 revisited: --update option should behave like --search-media

2012-06-22 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:11:58 -0400, AL13N al...@rmail.be wrote: ok, i guess when people said, supported, i immediately assumed full support. that kind of misled me. My understanding, is that backports will have minimal testing. We ensure the backport will install, on a system that currently

Re: [Mageia-dev] bug 2317 revisited: --update option should behave like --search-media

2012-06-21 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 17:17:50 -0400, zezinho lists.jjo...@free.fr wrote: I vote for Mrs.B workaround : I agree. Simply treating release media that's enabled, as if it had the update flag seems to the easiest way to safely fix 2317. Two people have tested simply enabling Release media as

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposed Feature:Backports_update_applet

2012-06-15 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 15 Jun 2012 01:07:20 -0400, andre999 andre999...@laposte.net wrote: If the fact it is a backport is ignored, then every backport would be, by definition, an update. Even packages newly imported to Mageia. It depends on whether the user has set the backport repsository as an update

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-12 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 04:38:06 -0400, Samuel Verschelde sto...@laposte.net wrote: I re-read the backports policy, and there's a part I think needs to be pointed out before people start to backport packages. I have a different question. Will repositories such as Core Backports ever actually be

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-12 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 14:10:02 -0400, Sander Lepik sander.le...@eesti.ee wrote: There is no such repo as Core Backports Updates. If the package is validated it will be pushed into Core Backports. Ah. Yes. Should have looked more carefully first. Sorry for the noise. Regards, Dave Hodgins

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-artwork] Mageia 2 beta 3 available for tests

2012-06-11 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:47:56 -0400, Juan Luis Baptiste juan...@mageia.org wrote: On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 4:43 PM, tumbeliina tumbeli...@yahoo.com wrote: ~~~ That's because that's an old link for beta release, Mageia 2 final was released on May 22. You can get the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Backports policy clarification (and discussion)

2012-06-08 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 08 Jun 2012 10:22:41 -0400, Samuel Verschelde sto...@laposte.net wrote: I think you missed my point. If Mageia 1 backports has higher versions than Mageia 2 release (not backports), upgrade can fail because currently our tools do not take backports from the target release (mageia 2)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 specifications

2012-06-05 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 05:02:35 -0400, Anne Nicolas enn...@mageia.org wrote: Le 30/05/2012 23:43, Anne Nicolas a écrit : Here is the process: - until 15/06: make proposals for Mageia 3 specifications (features) following our policy - 16 to 18/06: choose features that will be added for official

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 3 specifications

2012-06-05 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 17:41:15 -0400, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: But ideally it would be nice if there was only one way to setup a network.. and for me that means NetworkManager :). But drakxtools was more advanced IIRC, so first NetworkManager needs to get more advanced, more

[Mageia-dev] Suggestion to obsolete ncpfs for Mageia 3.

2012-06-05 Thread David W. Hodgins
As per https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6153#c4 I think the package ncpfs should be obsoleted in Mageia 3, unless we have a user step forward, who has access to a Novell Netware server, and who is willing to help with future qa testing. Regards, Dave Hodgins

Re: [Mageia-dev] My proposals for Mageia 3

2012-06-04 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:39:08 -0400, Marcello marcello.a...@alice.it wrote: Hi, i've written some proposals for Mageia 3. Is there anyone who wants to adopt them? https://wiki.mageia.org/en/CheckboxesToChooseDE The installer already has these, so I don't understand what you want changed. You

Re: [Mageia-dev] Updating usb_modeswitch in mga2

2012-06-03 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:45:52 -0400, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Hi, In order to fix https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4853 we would need a newer usb_modeswitch (and it's -data supplement). As it's an update for a bugfix, where a patch is not suitable, I see no problem

[Mageia-dev] Unsigned packages in Core Release fore Mageia 2.

2012-05-29 Thread David W. Hodgins
As per https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4925 it seems some packages never got installed by qa members during testing. Can someone with access to a full mirror check all packages to see how many others there are? Regards, Dave Hodgins

Re: [Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [4584] (systemd_unit_exists) factorize

2012-05-23 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Wed, 23 May 2012 14:38:09 -0400, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: NAK. No it's not redundant it's very important. The symlinks *will* be broken when run via the installer due to the $::prefix as they will point to non-existent paths in /lib/systemd/ (not to /mnt/lib/systemd...) so

Re: [Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [4545] Add more missing packages (#5947, #5924, #5951)

2012-05-17 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Thu, 17 May 2012 16:27:38 -0400, Thierry Vignaud thierry.vign...@gmail.com wrote: Why includ uclibc https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5924 It's required by libuClibc-zlib1, which is on the dvd. Regards, Dave Hodgins

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal to drop the package wicd

2012-05-16 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 12 May 2012 08:40:15 -0400, zezinho lists.jjo...@free.fr wrote: Em 12-05-2012 05:39, David W. Hodgins escreveu: I think the package should be made obsolete in both Cauldron, and Mageia 1. Opinions? I agree. I've opened https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5926 requesting

Re: [Mageia-dev] Proposal to drop the package wicd

2012-05-13 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 12 May 2012 08:40:15 -0400, zezinho lists.jjo...@free.fr wrote: Em 12-05-2012 05:39, David W. Hodgins escreveu: I think the package should be made obsolete in both Cauldron, and Mageia 1. Opinions? I agree. If no-one objects, I'll post a request to the sysadmin team in a few hours

[Mageia-dev] Proposal to drop the package wicd

2012-05-11 Thread David W. Hodgins
As discussed in https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5608 while testing a security update for the wicd package, I found that the updated version, the Core release version, and the Cauldron version are all unable to run, due to incompatibilities with python 2.7. As the package conflicts with

Re: [Mageia-dev] freeze push: request Gimp 2.8 regarding single window interface!

2012-05-08 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Mon, 07 May 2012 06:22:30 -0400, Olav Vitters o...@vitters.nl wrote: We already have gimp 2.7.x, so this is nothing new (already an issue in Mageia 2). A discussion on the alt.os.linux.mageia usenet newsgroup shows that 2.8 fixes

Re: [Mageia-dev] Calligra 2.4.? in Mga 2

2012-05-08 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Tue, 08 May 2012 22:37:49 -0400, Funda Wang fundaw...@gmail.com wrote: Should be 2.4.1, I've pushed it into core/updates_testing I think that should be pushed into cauldron release, to avoid problems updating from Mageia 1. Regards, Dave Hodgins

Re: [Mageia-dev] no sound

2012-05-05 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 05 May 2012 12:05:50 -0400, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Hopefully that'll get sound, but the correct fix is for me to fix this in PulseAudio... I should have opened a bug report about this, as this affects my system as well. I'm so used to the problem, that I

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia cypher encryption proposal

2012-05-05 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 05 May 2012 05:12:38 -0400, Simple W simpl...@gmail.com wrote: Like things are now im forced (after isntall Mageia 2) to edit /usr/lib/DrakX/ds/dmcrypt.pm and replace aes-xts-benbi with aes-xtl-plain and recreate the encrypted partitions so that i can access them when for example

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia cypher encryption proposal

2012-05-05 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 05 May 2012 17:03:21 -0400, Simple W simpl...@gmail.com wrote: But with be better if users could choose from a cypher list, like it happens for example in debian installer, and not have a single one to handle encrypted partitions. That's a much bigger change to diskdrake. You can

Re: [Mageia-dev] Freeze Push: e2fsprogs

2012-05-03 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Thu, 03 May 2012 10:21:40 -0400, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Aside from this, the fact that e2fsck uses the current time as one of it's checks is just daft in the first place. If I have to replace the battery in my motherboard I don't want to have to get a bogus fsck warning.

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia 2 LiveCD contents...

2012-04-29 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:47:59 -0400, Thomas Backlund t...@mageia.org wrote: So atleast every cd with size 700M need to loose some stuff... So please help out with suggestions... Looking at the list, the first one I would consider removing is inkscape. I'ts large, a leaf package, and doesn't

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] many systemd temporary directories

2012-04-24 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:51:09 -0400, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Florian Hubold at 24/04/12 21:27 did gyre and gimble: Am 24.04.2012 20:51, schrieb Juergen Harms: I just saw that systemd creates (and does not purge) lots of directories like

Re: [Mageia-dev] Inverted colors in the flashplayer

2012-04-10 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:44:38 -0400, Pierre Jarillon jaril...@abul.org wrote: Le mercredi 11 avril 2012 00:38:51, Pascal Terjan a écrit : flash-player-plugin-11.2.202.228-1.mga1.nonfree With Mageia 1 and flashplayer 11.1.102.63 colors are correct. IMHO, it should be better to come back to

[Mageia-dev] Latest upgrade testing

2012-04-06 Thread David W. Hodgins
I think developers may be interested in the latest qa testing of upgrading from Mageia 1 to Caulron. Check out https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=4t=2187 Regards Dave Hodgins

Re: [Mageia-dev] usb printers

2012-04-02 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 03:51:44 -0400, zezinho lists.jjo...@free.fr wrote: Em 01-04-2012 10:01, zezinho escreveu: I tried to use an USB printer, and while it was detected - task-printing installed, it was not automaticaly added, as it is in MGA1. Trying to add it manually, only a LPT (parallel)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Report on my update from 1

2012-04-01 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:26:41 -0400, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 01/04/12 20:01 did gyre and gimble: On 1 April 2012 02:01, Pascal Terjan pter...@gmail.com wrote: - While dracut was running, it displayed plenty of libkmod: index_mm_open:

Re: [Mageia-dev] unable to mount encrypted partitions created with drakdisk

2012-03-28 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 19:00:04 -0400, simple w8 simpl...@gmail.com wrote: Something is not right, Free-OTFE says is does support xts but its not being able to mount the partitions encrypted in Mageia, what can be the cause? We're using --cipher aes-xts-benbi --key-size 512. As per

[Mageia-dev] How should packages with version in name be handled?

2012-03-25 Thread David W. Hodgins
I've started qa testing upgrading from Mageia 1 to Cauldron, to ensure going from Mageia 1 to 2 will go smoothly. I'm running into a some cases like https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5103 where Mageia 1 has libchamplain-gtk0.8_1 and Cauldron has libchamplain-gtk0.12_0 As the packages

Re: [Mageia-dev] unable to mount encrypted partitions created with drakdisk

2012-03-21 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 03:41:00 -0400, simple w8 simpl...@gmail.com wrote: But i think it would be better to have in diskdrake some option allowing the user to choose the cypher, since the default cypher used in cryptsetup and in other apps that support luks, is cbc, and this way diskdrake is

Re: [Mageia-dev] unable to mount encrypted partitions created with drakdisk

2012-03-20 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:57:47 -0400, simple w8 simpl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I use sometimes to boo Windows, and if i need some file i use to mount my /home encrypted partition using FreeOTFE (or TrueCrypt) to access the files i need, but i saw today that the /home partition that was created in

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia support for GMA 3600 (Cedar Trail Atom)

2012-03-08 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Thu, 08 Mar 2012 04:52:46 -0500, tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: Thanks but neither nokmsboot nor i915.modeset=0 make much of a difference. With nokmsboot I get the mageia splash screen for a second Probably best to open a bug report then. My guess is that it needs a firmware file, but I

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia support for GMA 3600 (Cedar Trail Atom)

2012-03-07 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:00:38 -0500, tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: Hi, I just tried Mageia 2 beta 1 on a Intel DN2800MT board hoping that it would have framebuffer support for the GMA 3600, but the attached monitor goes into standby (no signal)

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mageia support for GMA 3600 (Cedar Trail Atom)

2012-03-07 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Wed, 07 Mar 2012 21:00:38 -0500, tux99-...@uridium.org wrote: As far as I understand there is frame buffer support in the 3.3 kernel for the GMA 3600 so in theory it should work. Oops. Sorry, that second one should have been i915.modeset=0 Regards, Dave Hodgins

[Mageia-dev] Problems with systemd and /media.

2012-03-02 Thread David W. Hodgins
Since systemd puts /media on tmpfs, specifically in /lib/systemd/system/media.mount, it's causing problems on upgrade of a system with fstab entries that have mount points in /media. https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3550 At present, we have an errata entry regarding this

Re: [Mageia-dev] Order of nics when multiple network interfaces detected.

2012-02-25 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:46:07 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Not really no, but perhaps you're now using NetworkManager and it's somehow not updating the persistent rules? It's udev. The file /lib/udev/write_net_rules is missing. Regards, Dave Hodgins

Re: [Mageia-dev] New dracut - please test

2012-02-25 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:59:39 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Can you test that generating a new initrd after booting via dracut (and thus getting a hostonly one) does actually activate your usr partition? It's working now with a hostonly initramfs. Thanks! Still can't

Re: [Mageia-dev] New dracut - please test

2012-02-24 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:42:01 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: The other big change here is to automatically generate a much bigger initramfs when doing an upgrade from mga1. This will include a lot more I just tried it running dracut in a chroot from mga1, and got the bigger

Re: [Mageia-dev] New dracut - please test

2012-02-24 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:42:01 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: The other big change here is to automatically generate a much bigger initramfs when doing an upgrade from mga1. This will include a lot more stuff (e.g. lvm, raid etc) that may or may not be needed on a given setup,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Problem with rpm -q --whatrequires

2012-02-21 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:27:17 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Is this because the kernel requires it as Requires(pre) and thus it doesn't show up? Should it show up? I don't know if it should show up for rpm or not, but it works with urpmq ... [root@hodgins /]# rpm -q

Re: [Mageia-dev] Unetbooting and extlinx - strange issue

2012-02-21 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:42:46 -0500, Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: After installing unetbootin on my updated Cauldron box: When I start unetbootin - I get an error message stating that extlinx is not found - but oddly enough, it is installed . . . chmod a+x /usr/sbin/extlinux The

Re: [Mageia-dev] Mounting a CDROM problem

2012-02-16 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 04:20:32 -0500, Robert Fox l...@foxconsult.net wrote: responded: The requested operation has failed.: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: mount: mount point /media/cdrom does not exist Do you have an entry in /etc/fstab for /media/cdrom? If

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-15 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:10:09 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: OK, that was a very strange quirk it all boiled down to a string comparison function :s Can you try with dracut-015-3.mga2 when it arrives? Still doesn't work. If you cannot boot, you can just pass

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-15 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:10:09 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Can you try with dracut-015-3.mga2 when it arrives? See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4537 Regards, Dave Hodgins

Re: [Mageia-dev] New Dracut: Please test

2012-02-14 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:55:17 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Can everyone please test the new dracut please? Especially those of you With dracut-015-2, / on a partition, /usr on a lvm logical volume, the initramfs no longer has the lvm2 command, or the dm_mod kernel module

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2012-02-02 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:22:30 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Are things working OK for you now with dracut or is it still busted? I've finally figured out why it wasn't working for my system. Two separate problems. First, /dev/$volumegroup/$logicalvolume symlinks are no

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-28 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sun, 18 Dec 2011 17:22:46 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Can you run the attached? It works. It identifies /usr as being on 252:9, which is on 8:12, which has the fs_type LVM2_member. Regards, Dave Hodgins

Re: [Mageia-dev] [bugs] [Bug 2111] transcode, A linux video stream processing utility

2011-12-28 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 06:51:29 -0500, Oliver Burger bugzilla-dae...@mageia.org wrote: And I do know, many plf packages are in tainted (that's why we do have tainted), the question remains, if a package being in plf2010.1 qualifies for pushing to updates. My understanding is that packages in

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-18 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:00:51 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: The shell script you'll need to tweak is /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/90lvm/module-setup.sh. That is the problem. In that module, it finds /usr on dev/block/252:9, and the call to get_fs_type correctly returns the

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-17 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:11:48 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: I'll have a look and if I cannot come up with something better, I'll just give up and force grep to be installed :D With the current versions of dracut and lvm, lvm is failing to load due to libncursesw.so.5 not

Re: [Mageia-dev] mariadb

2011-12-17 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 11:10:29 -0500, Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be wrote: I mentioned that this library should be versioned, and that it's not at this time, he agreed, and said that since it's ABI compatible with mysqlclient, that he should not use 0 major, but the 18 major (same as

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-17 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:21:14 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Dracut should install all dynamic libs needed by apps. Which app needs this library specifically? When I tried to boot after running dracut with the default config, I was dropped to a shell, with the non-lvm root

Re: [Mageia-dev] Issues with dracut

2011-12-17 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 15:21:14 -0500, Colin Guthrie mag...@colin.guthr.ie wrote: Dracut should install all dynamic libs needed by apps. Which app needs this library specifically? Do you have /usr on a logical volume? I've figured out now, that /lib/dracut/hooks/pre-pivot/50mount-usr.sh is

Re: [Mageia-dev] mariadb

2011-12-17 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:12:21 -0500, Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be wrote: that is a lot of memory, do you have any mysqld logs? and also, for the record, you have mariadb installed? This is from akonadi under kde4. I'll look to see if I can find any logs from that. can you check if you

Re: [Mageia-dev] mariadb

2011-12-17 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:12:21 -0500, Maarten Vanraes al...@rmail.be wrote: oh and were any mysql libraries still loaded? ie: programs linked to mysql, after upgrade? See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3804 Regards, Dave Hodgins

Re: [Mageia-dev] Problem with $MIRRORLIST ?

2011-12-12 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:59:08 -0500, Charles A Edwards c...@eslrahc.com wrote: For the past 2 days there appears to be an issue if using $MIRRORLIST urpmi bails with the following: 'Could not find a mirror from mirrorlist $MIRRORLIST' See https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3707 Regards,

Re: [Mageia-dev] Where to report mageia 2 alpha 1 problems?

2011-12-10 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 10:01:38 -0500, Franklin Weng frank...@goodhorse.idv.tw wrote: 2011/12/10 Manuel Hiebel man...@hiebel.eu: Le samedi 10 décembre 2011 à 21:23 +0800, Franklin Weng a écrit : https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_alpha1 is up and there is a link to

Re: [Mageia-dev] USB crash

2011-12-09 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:18:54 -0500, Michel Catudal michelcatu...@gmail.com wrote: Since the Jump drive for what I wanted to copy to I unplugged it. I then plugged in a 16GB jump drive. All USB device were gone. Mouse and keyboard unusable. Even if I disconnect and reconnect keyboard or mouse

[Mageia-dev] Unsigned packages in updates testing

2011-12-08 Thread David W. Hodgins
With todays update of libreoffice, I'm getting a bunch of messages such as ... /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/autocorr-cs-3.3.4.1-1.1.mga1.noarch.rpm: Invalid signature (NOT OK (no key): cannot open Packages database in ) I thought the rpm signing was supposed to be automatic. How does this happen?

Re: [Mageia-dev] ffmpeg in mageia1 updates testing (revision 171164)

2011-11-24 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:53:07 -0500, D.Morgan dmorga...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Thomas Backlund t...@mageia.org wrote: Philippe DIDIER skrev 24.11.2011 14:52: - update ffmpeg keeping x264 support but need to rebuild mass of packages (not alone ) and provide lots

Re: [Mageia-dev] [Off topic: GPG-signature]

2011-11-24 Thread David W. Hodgins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 23:20:46 -0500, Duane Phinney genom...@earthlink.net wrote: There is a point: If an email appears on the list from me which has not been signed its not from me which has happened in the past. If the public key is not made

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kdenlive-0.8.2-1.mga2

2011-11-15 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:34:48 -0500, Juan Luis Baptiste juan...@mageia.org wrote: I wrote about this some weeks ago but it went unnoticed[1], about a cross-platform tool developed by OpenSuSE that is for doing all kind of automated QA tests[2]. That tool looks very promising and helpful. [1]

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kdenlive-0.8.2-1.mga2

2011-11-15 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:40:13 -0500, Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote: Or do we plan to do it started, so it is good enough, let's ship it ? QA policy is to try and recreate the bug, if possible, in order to confirm that the update fixes the bug it claims to fix. We also test that the

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release kdenlive-0.8.2-1.mga2

2011-11-05 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:32:56 -0400, Juan Luis Baptiste juan.bapti...@gmail.com wrote: Also the only package depending on it is kdenlive: [juancho@localhost mlt]$ urpmq --whatrequires mlt urpmq --whatrequires-recursive will also show openshot uses mlt. Both openshot and kdenlive are working

Re: [Mageia-dev] Please test: initscripts+systemd in updates_testing

2011-10-31 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:17:15 -0400, Michael Scherer m...@zarb.org wrote: What is the usable feature ? To be able to put some kind of quota on /usr ? To be able to use a different fs for / and /usr ? I once ran into the situation where installing a package succeeded, but caused the /

Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release util-linux-2.20.1-1.mga2

2011-10-30 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:33:25 -0400, Dick Gevers dvgev...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:15:16 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote about Re: [Mageia-dev] [changelog] [RPM] cauldron core/release util-linux-2.20.1-1.mga2: And this is completely superfluous (also not in fstab): tmpfs

Re: [Mageia-dev] Please test: initscripts+systemd in updates_testing

2011-10-30 Thread David W. Hodgins
On Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:19:23 -0400, Thomas Backlund t...@mageia.org wrote: I'm saying moving the stuff that is _really_ needed, not based on udev might run... Wouldn't it be easier just to make sure /usr, /usr/lib, /usr/bin, etc, are all mounted before starting other things, just like the

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